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That list of casualties is for the people killed. Not the ships.
On June 4th:
Soryu was scuttled first. Followed by Kaga.
The next day (June 5th) Akagi was scuttled, followed four hours later by Hiryu, who had been damaged later the previous day.
Mogami ran into Mikuma after Mikuma's helmsman turned her to evade submarines at too great an angle, causing Mogami, that was behind her, to run into her on the ordered course change. They limped behind the retreating Main Fleet and were subject to attacks form airplanes from Midway and later Hornet and Enterprise. Mikuma's fate was sealed by a fire that set off her own oxygen driven torpedoes. Mikuma sunk onthe 6th of June.
Later on June 6th, I-168 torpedoed the crippled USS Yorktown and the escorting USS Hammann. Hammann broke in two and sank. They tried to save Yorktown once more, but she eventually sank on June 7th, ending the Battle of Midway.
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